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Nutri-CAP: Nutrition for Children, Adolescent Girls, and Pregnant Women in Slums of Dhaka City
Led by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh · Updated on 2024-10-30
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Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
N/A
Total Duration
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Sponsors
I
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Lead Sponsor
G
Global Affairs Canada
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This research aims to develop a sustainable nutrition service platform to improve pregnancy weight gain, dietary diversity in adolescent girls, and proper physical growth in children under 2 years living in slums of Dhaka city. It addresses major public health challenges including food insecurity, stunted growth, and micronutrient deficiencies among these vulnerable groups. The project also explores the impact of nutrition and hygiene counseling on maternal health, adolescent nutrition, child growth, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices. The intervention includes intensive nutrition counseling, micronutrient supplementation, and growth monitoring. Pregnant women receive monthly dietary counseling, daily iron-folate and calcium supplements, and antenatal care visits until delivery. Adolescent girls participate in twice-monthly nutrition education sessions and receive iron, folate, and zinc supplements. Children under 2 years undergo monthly growth monitoring, feeding counseling, WASH education, treatment for malnutrition, and, if severely stunted, receive daily egg and micronutrient powder supplementation for specified periods. Community participation efforts focus on improving sanitation and water supply. Participants will be monitored regularly through dietary recalls, growth measurements, hemoglobin levels, and maternal WASH practice assessments over periods ranging from 6 months to 1 year. Data will be collected from both intervention and control areas to evaluate outcomes such as pregnancy weight gain, dietary diversity, child growth, and improved hygiene practices. The study includes baseline surveys, counseling sessions, supplementation, and follow-up assessments to measure impact and adherence. The total study duration varies by participant group and intervention phase.
CONDITIONS
Brief Title
Nutri-CAP: Nutrition for Children, Adolescent Girls, and Pregnant Women in Slums of Dhaka City
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Pregnant women aged 18 to 39 years
- Pregnant before 16 weeks of gestation
- Body mass index of 15 to 24.99 kg/m2 at enrollment
- Plan to stay in the study area until delivery
- Willing to participate in the study
- Not currently enrolled in any nutrition program
- Adolescent girls aged 11 to 19 years
- Willing to participate in the study
- Not involved in any nutrition program
- Plan to stay in the study area for the next 2 years
- Children aged 0 to 24 months
- Youngest child in the household
- Caregivers plan to stay in the study area for at least 2 years
- Not currently enrolled in any nutrition program
You will not qualify if you...
- Pregnant women not willing to consent
- Planning to move out of the study area during the study
- Planning to deliver outside the study area
- Having chronic diseases that affect study participation
- Extremely obese pregnant women
- Currently involved in any nutrition program
- Adolescent girls not willing to consent
- Planning to move out of the study area during the study
- Currently involved in any nutrition program
- Children whose caregivers are not willing to consent
- Planning to move out of the study area during the study
- Children with any congenital anomalies
- Currently involved in any nutrition program
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Your Study Journey
Duration - 2 to 4 weeks
Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial.
1 visit (in-person)
Duration - Up to 6 months for adolescent girls and WASH counseling; from enrollment before 16 weeks gestation to childbirth for pregnant women; 3 to 6 months for children supplementation and counseling
Participants receive nutrition counseling and supplementation tailored to their group: pregnant women receive intensive dietary counseling, daily iron-folate and calcium supplements, and antenatal care visits; adolescent girls attend twice-monthly nutrition education sessions with weekly iron-folate and daily zinc supplements; children under 2 years receive monthly growth monitoring, counseling on infant feeding and hygiene, with additional egg and micronutrient powder supplementation for severely stunted children; a subgroup receives intensive WASH counseling twice monthly.
Monthly home visits for children; twice-monthly sessions for adolescent girls and WASH group; at least four antenatal visits for pregnant women
Duration - Up to 1 year post-enrollment for children and adolescent girls; until childbirth for pregnant women
Participants' outcomes including pregnancy weight gain, dietary diversity, child growth, and maternal WASH practices are monitored after the intervention period to assess long-term effects.
Outcome assessments at specified intervals, timing varies by participant group
Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)
Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh, 1212
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
M
Mustafa Mahfuz, MBBS, MPH, PhD
F
Fahmida Farzana, MSc, MPH
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
PREVENTION
Number of Arms
2
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